This is the tale that began in 2006 in my first year of beekeeping in Atlanta, GA. ...there's still so much to learn.

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I began this blog to chronicle my beekeeping experiences. I have read lots of beekeeping books, but nothing takes the place of either hands-on experience with an experienced beekeeper or good pictures of the process. I want people to have a clearer picture of what to expect in their beekeeping so I post pictures and write about my beekeeping saga here. Along the way, I've passed a number of certification levels and am now a! Master Beekeeper Enjoy with me as I learn and grow as a beekeeper.

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Bugs in the Beehive

I found a new way to fill the AJ's beetle eater trap. I have this gravy measuring cup that is designed to separate gravy and fat. Since it has a tiny pouring lip, I decided to try to fill the trap with it and it worked beautifully.

But before I put anything back into the hive, I noticed this cockroach in Mellona on the inside of the telescoping cover - gross.

Under Mellona's top cover there were tons of SHBs - see how many there are. I squashed a lot of them with my fingers (gloved!) and with my hive tool.

I dumped dead beetles out of the AJs beetle eaters all over my deck railing. Maybe the wren will eat them. There were so many that it looks like piles of seeds gathered on the deck rail.

8 comments:

Thanks goodness we don`t have that beetle down here yet - it is probably only a matter of time. No bee products are allowed into NZ so we don`t get to try all the gorgeous honeys from other lands .. I would love to see inside the `bee` tree also, I am having a TB hive built for me and am really excited about keeping bees in it later on.

I can certainly see your point, but I feel personally invested in the queen and her production and well-being and I can't stand and have no investment in thousands of hive beetles - that's probably the difference - no feeling of personal connection to the dread SHB!

I've had the beetle traps on my hives for about 4 weeks now and they are working great. We have not seen any in awhile now and one hive is totally gone. It's working beautifully....Vickie in Van TX. Honeybear Farms

I'm not a bee keeper, but I do everything in my power to help the environment as best as I can. We been having to many wasps in the area and I read some articles of environmental friendly traps that include some jams, sugar and others and it does say not to add HONEY because it will attract honey bees!. Well I don't want that but I do have lots of expired MOLASSES and was wondering if this attracts honey bees or not????? I figured I would have to ask an professional on this matter. I will truly appreciate if you can help me on this one.

Probably the jams and sugars will attract honey bees as will molasses. If you live where there is a strong nectar flow right now, then the chance of attracting honey bees is less, but all of those sweet things honey bees will like.

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New Atlanta Beekeeping Meetup Group

The third meeting of Atlanta Beekeeping Naturally is Thursday, August 13 from 6:30 - 7:45 at the 11Alive conference room at One Monroe Dr. in Atlanta (30324). In July we talked about small hive beetles. Members requested that the August discussion be on healthy wax, so that's our subject for the meeting!

Want to talk bees with like-minded beekeepers who want to discuss things about bees?

It's hard in a bee meeting to have time to discuss interesting topics because the speaker takes all the time. We thought it would be great to have a group to encourage discussion about beekeeping as naturally as possible. We plan to meet once a month.

For now we are meeting the second Thursday of the month . We'd love it if you joined us for interesting discussions about keeping bees in the many ways that people do. Click here to find our Meetup group page: Atlanta Beekeeping the Natural Way.

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"There are a few rules of thumb that are useful guides. One is that when you are confronted with some problem in the apiary and you do not know what to do, then do nothing. Matters are seldom made worse by doing nothing and are often made much worse by inept intervention." --The How-To-Do-It book of Beekeeping, Richard Taylor

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